Improved washing-machine



vTo all whom it may-looncer:

` `washing clothes; and

clothes are washed.

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A BENJAMIN .HoeKABoUn or ANToon, oALIFoRNIA.

Letters Patent No.j `105,453, datd July 19, 1870.

IMPROVE!) WASHING-MAGHINE.

The Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

,Beit `*known `that I,BENJAMIN HoeKABoUT, of

.Antiocln county of Contra Costa, State of California, haveinvented anImproved Washing-Machine; and

` I do hereby declare the following description and actcompanyingdrawing are sufficient toenable any person skilled in the artor.`science to which it most.` nearly `appertainsto makeand'nse my saidVinvention or `improvements Withontlfnrther invention or experiment.` 1i -My invention relates to an improved machine for It consists in anumber of corrugatedroller rubbers,

which -are suspended at the extremities of springs aronndthe rils of twowheels. The wheels are revolved by proper-mecl|anismcausing the rubbersto berolled over a concave wash-board, which i`s also suspendedfromsuitable springs, so as to yield 'when the clothes are Apressed betweenit and the rollers. s h In order to `more fullyillnstrate and explain myin, tendon, reference is 'hadto the 'accompanying draw-v ing forming apartl of Vthis specification, in which-f A represents a tubbr box,inside of.which the A shaft, B, passesacross this box, bearing in itssides, and carrying upon each end, inside the box, a

wheel0,`the `wheels bei-ng'securcd to the shaft close i against thesides. j

. Flatsprings',ra, bave one end secured tothe rims ot' theiwheels O, andare slightly curved, so that their opposite ends will stand at a shortdistance from'the 1'im. ,3 u

In the elevated ends of these springs the Vjournals orcorrngated`rollers D bear the 'rollers 'extending across the box between the.wheels O, and bearing in -.theoppositespm'ugs.`

. 'lwo or more of these corrugated rollers may be used,apfcor'responding number of springs being re t quired uponfeach wheel.

A wash-board, composed `of two or more independ-4 ent corrugated boards,E,`is arranged in a circular manner beneath the rollers D, so as to forma continnous concave wash-board. The boardsrE are. connected together bywires b, or other suitable device, which passes through their ends, anda space, e, is left between eachtwo of the boards, through which thewater Hows to the upper surface of'tlle wash-board, when yit is presseddownward by the rollers.y v

`'The concave wash-board is suspended at each cor? vner from suitablesprings. In the present instance it is represented at one end assuspended from coiled springs f, and at the opposite end from flatsprings g, but any kind of spring can be used.v Y

A perforated inclined apron, F, is placed at the furthest endpf thewash-board, which conveys the water to the bottom of the box as it issqueezed from the clothes by the rollers.

The corrngations 0nr the'rollers D lare arranged spi rally, so that theywill roll smoothly over the washboarc.

f A tire-place or stove,rG, is 'arranged under the box,` by means ofwhich the water under the wash-board 'is kept hot. .h

A crank, H,.serves by'wbich to turn the rollers. Having thus desclibedmy invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. suspending-the corrugated rollers from theends' of the springs a,said springs being secured-upon wheels O, substantially. as and'for the`purpose 'above i described. l y s 2. The waslbboards E, havingV spaces ebetween. themJin combination with the perforated b'oard F and spring g,as shown and described.

In witness that the above-described invention is claimedby me, I havehereunto set my hand and seal.

v ,BENJAMIN HOGKABOUT. [L. s]

' Witnesses: M.' S. LEVY, Unas. linnn.

